August 2006 Web Log Entries
ColdFusion Screen Shots: GIF vs. JPG
Posted: August 31, 2006 at 1:59 PM by Ben Nadel
It's nice to see screen shots of people's code. What is not nice is to see a really trashy screen shot that doesn't need to be trashy. There are different file compressions for a reason. They all perform differently in different situations. If you are taking a screen shot of code or your browser where there is a LOT of empty space and a small colo... read more »
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Blog Entry Comment Subscriptions Up And Running
Posted: August 30, 2006 at 8:06 PM by Ben Nadel
I have finally gotten around to adding subscription information to my blog entry comments. This is nothing new to you all, but this blog is being built from the ground up for experience, so it's coming in piece by piece. The email that goes out looks pretty lame at the moment, so hopefully I should have some time to spruce it up. One thing that ... read more »
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XStandard Now Available For Safari On Mac OS X!
Posted: August 30, 2006 at 6:09 PM by Ben Nadel
XStandard.com just released a beta for the XStandard WYSIWYG editor for Safari on Mac OS X. Up until now, myself (and all my new clients) have been using the XStandard editor on Windows machines. This is not a problem as the world is on Windows machines (oh settle down!), but this new release just means that practically no one is limited! How fr... read more »
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Quick Note On IsDate() vs. IsNumericDate()
Posted: August 30, 2006 at 3:50 PM by Ben Nadel
After my post yesterday on date math , someone sent me a question about IsDate() vs. IsNumericDate(). I briefly touch on the use of IsNumericDate() to determine if you have a numeric date, but I was not clear on exactly how it works. IsDate() takes a date/time object. IsNumericDate() takes a number. There are some caveats here. Since IsNumericDat... read more »
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Color Coding Sample Code Getting Much Closer
Posted: August 30, 2006 at 10:22 AM by Ben Nadel
I am almost done figuring out the code I need to color code my code sample. Color coding will make things much easier to read for you guys. The problem is, this is REALLY freakin' hard. I have looked at Ray Camden's color coding and some other coding, and it just doesn't apply here. The problem I have is that my code is structured in lists rather ... read more »
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ColdFusion Date Math Faster Than Date Methods... And Other Date/Math Ramblings
Posted: August 29, 2006 at 6:50 PM by Ben Nadel
Ben Forta had posted something about subtracting one date from another and it got me thinking. If you follow my blog, you know that I am a big fan of performing straight up date math (leveraging the fractional format of a date) rather than using built in ColdFusion methods such as DateAdd() and CreateDate() WHEN I CAN (which is not all the time ... read more »
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Color Coding My Code Samples - UGGG!
Posted: August 29, 2006 at 8:26 AM by Ben Nadel
I am finding it very hard to automate the coding of my code samples. I tried looking into Ray Camden's BlogCFC code, but unfortunately his does not work for my situation. My code is not stored a single string. Instead, my code is stored in an unordered list (<ol>) where each list item (<li>) is a single line of code (or partial line of... read more »
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ColdFusion Custom Tag CALLER Scope Uses Special Structure Notation
Posted: August 28, 2006 at 4:01 PM by Ben Nadel
From what I can see, CALLER scope structure notation is a special form of structure notation. Let's take a look at an example. Let's assume that we have a custom tag called my_tag.cfm: <!--- Param attributes values. ---> <cfparam name="ATTRIBUTES.name" /> <cfparam name="ATTRIBUTES.value" /> <!--- Set value in caller ... read more »
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Thanks To David Ries For Google AdWords Help
Posted: August 28, 2006 at 1:42 PM by Ben Nadel
I just wanted to give thanks to my man, David Ries, over at Edit.com for helping me set up Google AdWords. I have never worked with AdWords before and I had to set up conversion tracking information internal to a client site. I wasn't seeing anything useful in the documentation and contacted Dave, who works with Google a lot at Edit.com . He po... read more »
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Ben Forta On Java Methods In ColdFusion
Posted: August 28, 2006 at 9:45 AM by Ben Nadel
Ben Forta posted a blog entry about Java properties last week and I took the opportunity to ask him about how safe it was to use the Java methods that underlie the world of ColdFusion. If you have been following my blog, you know that I am loving the Java stuff that is accessible from the ColdFusion application layer. I want to start using more ... read more »
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My New Dell Inspiron E1505 Centrino Duo Arrived!
Posted: August 26, 2006 at 12:55 PM by Ben Nadel
I finally took the plunge to replace my father's old lap top (which I inherited) with a new Dell Inspiron E1505 Centrino Duo. Before this I was working off of an ultra-portable, Fujitsu B-Series Life Book. I think the keyboard was like 3 inches wide, and for a dude with some serious RSI in the wrists, it was basically death every time I went to ty... read more »
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Creating A PING-Like Browser Bookmark For Feed-Squirrel
Posted: August 25, 2006 at 3:05 PM by Ben Nadel
For those of you who post to Feed-Squirrel.com, you know that you are supplied with a URL that you can PING when you update your site. This URL will ask Feed-Squirrel to grab your RSS feed and update its internal listings. I don't like to do this automatically using ColdFusion after my actually blog posting, as I like some time to read the blog en... read more »
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Randomly Sorting A ColdFusion List
Posted: August 25, 2006 at 12:59 PM by Ben Nadel
The other day, Si asked me if I knew how to randomize a given list. This is something that I figured would be really easy, but was actually a bit stumped. I mean, I could figure it out, but none of the ways seemed very easy or short. I checked out CFLib.org, but couldn't find anything (maybe I didn't know how to search for it). So, I came up with ... read more »
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Tim Cracked The GMail - CFMailPart Puzzle!
Posted: August 24, 2006 at 1:44 PM by Ben Nadel
My main man, Tim, just cracked the puzzling way that GMail handles multi-part emails. As I had posted before , if you send an email to GMail with a rich text (text/html) part and a plain text (text/plain) part, GMail would always ignore the richly formatted text part and show the plain text. It turns out, as Tim, shows me, the order of the CFMail... read more »
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How Does It Feel To Be An Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer?
Posted: August 24, 2006 at 1:24 PM by Ben Nadel
Pretty freakin' sweet, I tell you what! I just got certified this morning and passed with a 95%. It was so stressful getting ready, I mean, I haven't taken a test in like 5 years (except for my Personal Training certification and that was a joke). I'll tell you though, the studying really forces you to look at stuff you rarely ever use. I hope to ... read more »
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